One of the first big names was San Mateo County Supervisor Jerry Hill. Now’s she added State Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco/San Mateo, to her growing team of supporters. She’s also snared the endorsements of Assemblyman Gene Mullin, D-San Mateo, and the Sierra Club. (She’ll discuss environmental issues at an event from 10 a.m. to noon on Sunday at Boothbay Park.)

In addition to Ring, the candidates for the council consist of Councilwoman Linda Koelling and Councilman Rick Wykoff, who are running for re-election; Art Kiesel, a member of the city Planning Commission; Marcia Cohn-Lyle, a member of the San Mateo Union High School District’s Board of Trustees; Patrick McKinnie, a group home counselor; and Stanley Roberts, a television journalist for KRON-4.

Of all the challengers, however, Ring has made the most noise so far. And if form holds from the last time we wrote about her, the comments section will soon fill up with glowing recommendations from her friends and supporters.

8 Responses to “Ring on fire”

Huijun Ring is the only candidate that is listening to we the residents of Foster City, and is bold enough to say the City Council can and should try to act in all our interests. She supports a range of issues that are important to my family, and has our support.

Dr. Ring is a breath of fresh air compared to the current council. I appreciate her
support of an education center with multiple types of educational formats, from children
to charter high school and seniors. As an avid recycler, I also admire her concern for
the environment. Huijun has our votes in this household.

Huijun will bring sorely needed analytic skills and project-management experience to our council, whose members (except for one) are woefully unequal to the tasks at hand. We
need her to facilitate gaining a community educatiion center/public charter high school
and to steer development of the 15 acres of publicly-owned land. She’s the perfect
representative of Foster City’s new, young demographic that prizes famly values. She
understands more than anyone on the council the indispensability of a rigorous second-
ary education.

I have know Huijun for more than 10 years and I can honestly say that she is one of the most intelligent, motivated, and hardworking people I know. She is a wonderful mother, a brilliant scientist, and also a genuinely nice person. She believes in the importance of education and the environment, and is willing to work hard to achieve her goals and the goals of the community. With her strength of character and motivation to help Foster City, I know she will make a great council member.